Non-Review: Witches Steeping in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold #1)

Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold #1)
By Ciannon Smart

Published By: Hot Key Books
Publication Date: April 20, 2021
Date Read: May 14, 2022
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: Bought
Format: Audiobook
Pages: 544

From Goodreads:
Divided by their order. United by their vengeance.

Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom – and vengeance.

Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power.

Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. But power is intoxicating, revenge is a bloody pursuit, and nothing is certain – except the lengths they will go to win this game.

This Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy has the twisted cat-and-mouse of Killing Eve with the richly imagined fantasy world of Furyborn and Ember in the Ashes.

Witches Steeped in Gold is a book that’s been on my radar since before it was published. As a lover of all things fantasy, I was so excited to get my hands on this book. It sounded absolutely amazing. I still feels like this book has an amazing premise, but unfortunately the execution of that premise just didn’t work for me.

I was actually listening to the audiobook for this one, so I don’t know if it was me just completely zoning out but I found this book really confusing. I was a good hundred or so pages in and I just couldn’t understand anything that was going on. I didn’t really understand who was who, or what the plot was. After reading a few reviews on Goodreads, I found that a lot of people also found this confusing, and some said that things don’t really make sense until the end of the book. I am such an impatient person, so I decided that I was just going to cut my losses and give up on this one.

I really wish I’d loved this one, but I had no motivation to continue after the first hundred pages. I might come back to it at some point and try physically reading it, but for now this one is a DNF for me.

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